deep creek kokanee

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The size of the fish are directly related to the adundance of zooplankton. That is why the the Shoshone tribe biologists have dumped phosphates in Redfish Lake in the past. I had a class up there studying the salmon runs when the tribal biologist was doing just that. They had discovered the zooplankton were declining rapidly. The average Joe might get upset that this will disturb the water clarity, but one must remember that when the sockeye runs were healthy, the bottom of Redfish was lined with rotting salmon, thus contributing to the zooplankton numbers.
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